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Privacy Policy

Prevent Child Abuse Vermont (“PCA-VT”) is committed to responsible information handling practices. You can visit most pages on our site without giving us any information about yourself, but sometimes we need information to provide services that you request. This privacy statement explains data collection and use in those situations. By visiting our Web site, you consent to the information practices described in this policy.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to other Web sites that may be accessible through the this site. Our site contains links to other sites that are operated by third parties, including but not limited to third party sites that display the PCA-VT trademarks. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of those other sites to learn how they collect and use information about you.

To assist you with reading through our Privacy Policy, we have provided answers to questions that you may find most important:

When you visit our Web site, we automatically collect information about your visit that does not identify you personally. We can tell the type of computer, browser, and Web service you are using. We also know the date, time, and pages you visit. Collecting this information helps us design the site to suit your needs.

Generally, our uses of information collected online include:

Respond to your inquiry about volunteering time to PCA-VT

Enable you to make a donation

Purchase a product on our Web site

Deliver services, such as sending marketing communications and newsletters.

PCA-VT may also use personally identifiable information for internal purposes, such as tracking demographic data to make this Web site more useful to our visitors.

Does the PCA-VT Web site use COOKIES, OTHER TECHNOLOGIES or THIRD PARTIES to INDIRECTLY collect information?

Cookies and other Technologies

A cookie is a small data file that a Web site may send to your browser and which may then be stored on your hard drive. Our Web sites use cookies to simulate a continuous connection —cookies let us "remember" information about your preferences and session, and allow you to move within areas of our Web sites without reintroducing yourself. No personally identifiable information is stored in these cookies.

Our Web site may also use other technologies to track which pages on our Web sites our visitors view. This non-identifiable click-stream data helps us understand how visitors use our Web site.

Does PCA-VT SHARE the information I’ve provided?

PCA-VT may need to share personal information with third parties in limited circumstances. For example, we may release personal information to third parties to perform services on our behalf such as: advising you of our upcoming events, products, volunteer opportunities, and breast health/breast cancer information or processing credit card payments. PCA-VT may also make your name and postal address available to other nonprofit organizations whose services or activities may be of interest to you. However, third parties retained by PCA-VT to provide such services are obligated to maintain the confidentiality of this information and are not authorized to use this information for any purpose other than providing those services.

From time to time, we may be required to provide personal information in response to a valid court order, subpoena, government investigation, or as otherwise required by law. We also reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we, in good faith, believe to be unlawful. We may release certain personal information when we believe that such release is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of others and ourselves.

Do I have CHOICES regarding how my information is used?

As stated above, PCA-VT may make your name and postal address available to other nonprofit organizations whose services or activities may be of interest to you. If you would like to opt out of having PCA-VT share your name and postal address with those organizations, please contact us at pcavt@pcavt.org or (802) 229-5724.

How does PCA-VT SECURE my personal information?

We are committed to properly securing the information we collect online. To help us accomplish this, we take the following steps:

We employ internal access controls to ensure that the only people who see your information are those with a need to do so to perform their official duties;

We train relevant personnel on our privacy and security measures;

We physically secure the areas where we hold hard copies of the information we collect online;

We regularly back up the information we collect online to insure against loss;

We use technical controls to secure the information we collect online as appropriate, including but not limited to: Secure Socket Layer (SSL), encryption, firewalls, password protections;

Our Web site does not intentionally collect information from children under the age of 13. If we discover that we have inadvertently collected information from a person under the age of 13, we will automatically delete it.

Whom can I CONTACT if I have questions or concerns?

If you have questions about our Privacy Policy, e-mail use at pcavt@pcavt.org.

Will this Privacy Policy CHANGE?

Because our Web sites and businesses will continue to implement new technologies and improve the services and features we provide, this policy is subject to change. If there are changes or additions to this Privacy Policy, we will post those changes here or in other formats we deem acceptable, so that you will always know what information we collect online, how we use it and what choices you have.

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